Actress Rebel Wilson Discloses She's in New Relationship after Long Time Friend Set Her Up
- US actress Rebel Wilson is officially dating again after a friend she's known for five years hooked her up with another person he had known for that long
- The 42-year-old actress said prior to getting in the relationship she had signed up on a dating site to try her luck
- She added that when the friend set her up, she was excited they both hit it off because her friend knew them and their likes
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Rebel Wilson is off the market, thanks to her longtime friend who decided to set her up with another friend of his.
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Rebel Wilson talks dating app experiences
The 42-year-old Pitch Perfect actress was on the U Up podcast hosted by Jordana Abraham and Jared Freid where she disclosed she was happily enjoying a new relationship.
"I am now happily in a relationship," she began.
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The Isn't It Romantic superstar also disclosed that prior to getting in that relationship, she signed up on dating sites trying to get a man.
"I was on and off on the Raya app, but this was a friend set up. He had known both of us for at least five years each and was like, 'Yeah, I think you two would hit it off,' and then we did," she further explained.
The actress had previously been in a relationship with a fine younger man but she gushed over her new lover after the set-up saying:
"I think that escalates things quicker, [meeting someone] from a trusted source. So then you're like, okay, I can trust this person, that they are legit, they are who they say they are – which is something on the [dating] apps you don't really know."
Rebel and her immediate ex Jacob Busch parted ways in February 2021 just four months after the two went Instagram official about their relationship.
Rebel Wilson talks about surviving kidnap in Africa
In a different report, the actress disclosed that she was touring Mozambique with a group of friends when gunmen stopped their truck.
She revealed that she had to take leadership during the incident as her friends were all petrified.
The Pitch Perfect actress believed that their kidnappers used their truck to smuggle illegal things across the border.
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